Bill Tubbs
Solutions Consultant at Qube Technologies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBill Tubbs is a Solutions Consultant and multidisciplinary engineer with 11 years of experience driving operational excellence across oil & gas, chemicals, mining and energy sectors. He combines hands-on process optimization and advanced control expertise with policy-anchored environmental economics from a masters in Resource and Environmental Management to reduce energy use, emissions and operating cost. Bill has led teams and programs to embed measurement-driven decision-making, planning/scheduling and asset performance management, and more recently applies data science to detect fugitive methane using continuous sensor networks. He also contributes to open-source control software, having refactored and modernized core algorithms in the widely used Python Control Systems Library to improve efficiency and Python 3 compatibility. Based in Vancouver, he blends technical depth—from control theory to numerical methods—with change management chops that turn analytic insight into sustained operational improvements. That mix of environmental policy training and practical plant-level optimization gives him an uncommon ability to bridge strategy, regulation and engineering execution.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Université LavalBSc Hons, Engineering (General), BSc Hons, Engineering (General) at Durham UniversityMaster's in Resource and Environmental Management, Energy and Climate Policy, Master's in Resource and Environmental Management, Energy and Climate Policy at Simon Fraser University
German, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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python
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matplotlib
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numpy
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pandas
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Github Skills (15)
control-systems10
code-optimization10
python10
numpy10
matplotlib9
pandas9
seaborn9
pep9
jupyter-notebook7
scipy6
dictionary6
pdb6
math6
dataframe6
stacked-bar-chart6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
python-control/python-control
May 2019 - Aug 2021
The Python Control Systems Library is a Python module that implements basic operations for analysis and design of feedback control systems.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on improving the `python-control` library's core functionality and code quality. They refactored and optimized existing control algorithms, specifically `ctrb` and `obsv`, to improve their efficiency and adhere to more pythonic coding practices. Furthermore, the user updated and refactored examples to be PEP8 compliant, including migrating to Python 3, changing import statements, and updating spacing. These modifications demonstrate a commitment to code quality and maintainability within the project.
pythonbasic-operationslibrary-systemspython-moduleelectrical-engineering
billtubbs/mech-575
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:97 commits, 39 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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